For a ranger program in Yellowstone early one morning the boys, Charlotte and I did a special painting program led by one of the park rangers (named Ben - HS physics teacher from CA) at Yellowstone Canyon). This is the spot where the American artist Thomas Moran painted the famous "Grand Canyon of Yellowstone" that helped to inspire the creation of Yellowstone as the first National Park. Moran saying "with a sort of regretful enthusiasm, that these beautiful tints were beyond the reach of human art." What the sketchbook could not encompass, however, memory and imagination perhaps could, and as soon as he got back to New York, Moran ordered an eight- by-fourteen-foot canvas and flung himself into work on the climactic panorama of America's years of Western expansion: The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
On this enchanting morning, we practiced some art of our own with pencil and water colors. Note the painting by Charlotte and the fun that Holden had. Henry had great fun and did an awesome waterfall drawing in pencil.
